Malign

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1. Adjective

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

2. Adjective

Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.

3. Adjective

Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.

4. Adjective

To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.

5. Adjective

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

6. Verb

To entertain malice.
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